About the author

Ye Shuxian is a Chinese author focusing on mythology and literary anthropology. Public information about him is limited, and details such as his birth year, native place, and education are not available in the current records. Judging from the six works held in the collection, his writing centers on Chinese mythological traditions and comparative mythology. These range from reader-oriented surveys and anthologies such as Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology and Selected Chinese Creation Myths to scholarly works with methodological reflection, including Comparative Mythology in China: Reflection and Exploration and Retelling Mythological China: Cultural Text Theory and Inter-Evidentiality from the Perspective of Literary Anthropology. He also traces the long-term evolution of mythological ideas through jade artifacts, as in The Axe of Pangu: The Nine-Thousand-Year Story of Jade Axes and Battle-Axes and Ancestral Spirits in Heaven: The Five-Thousand-Year Story of Jade Figurines and Handle-Shaped Objects, corroborating archaeological objects with mythological narratives and forming an interdisciplinary research path. His works appear in categories such as Eastern philosophy, social culture, and history reading, balancing scholarship with readability for readers interested in mythology and cultural origins.

Written (6)

Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology cover
Rating 4.1
Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology 叶舒宪 / 黄怒波 Peking University Press · 2025 From an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on a wealth of newly discovered archaeological evidence and knowledge, the author travels through the t…
Selected Chinese Creation Myths cover
Rating 4.0
Selected Chinese Creation Myths 叶舒宪 / 王宪昭 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 Creation myths play a vital role as archetypes of human thought. By telling stories of the origin of the universe and the coming of humankind, they la…
Ancestral Spirits in Heaven: Five Thousand Years of Stories of Jade Human Figures and Handle-shaped Objects cover
Rating 3.8
Ancestral Spirits in Heaven: Five Thousand Years of Stories of Jade Human Figures and Handle-shaped Objects 叶舒宪 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 As early as prehistoric times, before civilization and the state existed, idol worship and the making of gods had already become widespread. A particu…
Pangu's Axe: A Nine-Thousand-Year Story of Jade Axes and Battle-Axes cover
Rating 4.2
Pangu's Axe: A Nine-Thousand-Year Story of Jade Axes and Battle-Axes 叶舒宪 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 The myth of Pangu splitting heaven from earth is a literary fiction, yet the axe and halberd he used to do so have a material and cultural history of …
Restating Mythological China: Cultural Text Theory and the Perspective of Evidential Intertextuality in Literary Anthropology cover
Rating 4.0
Restating Mythological China: Cultural Text Theory and the Perspective of Evidential Intertextuality in Literary Anthropology 叶舒宪 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2019 This book is compiled from papers submitted to the Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Literary Anthropology, classified and organized throug…
Comparative Mythology in China: Reflection and Exploration cover
Rating 4.0
Comparative Mythology in China: Reflection and Exploration 叶舒宪 / 谭佳 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017 The "Reflection" section of this book takes the origins of comparative mythology in the West and in China as its starting point, systematically summar…

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University PressShanghai People's Publishing HousePeking University PressSocial Sciences Academic Press (SSAP)